Temple
Israel
Israel Action Committee
Newsletter - Issue 4
June 25, 2002
This
newsletter is brought to you by the Israel Action Committee of Temple Israel.
In this newsletter we will bring you articles about Israel and the conflict in
the Mideast that we believe are particularly insightful or that have important
information, as well as suggestions for how to help support Israel in a variety
of ways. Please read, think about, and act on the information in this message.
In addition, we encourage you to send this newsletter, or any individual
item in this newsletter, on to your friends and acquaintances.
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Special
Guest Speaker on Israel this coming Shabbat at Temple Israel
Please
come to Temple Israel this Shabbat, June 29, for a special guest speaker during
services:
Ronit Hanegby, PhD.
The Current Crisis in Israel:
A Mother's Perspective
Dr. Hanegby, a second generation sabra and resident of Hertzliya Pituach,
is the mother four children. One of her children was a sharp-shooter in
Ramallah at the recent siege of Yasser Arafat's compound. Her other
children are
also at various points either before or after military service.
Please come and hear Dr. Hanegby's perspective and gain valuable insight
into the realities and struggles of Israelis at this critical time.
There will also be an opportunity to meet and discuss with Dr. Hanegby at
Kiddush after services.
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The
Human Face of Israeli Victims of Terror ************************************************************************* The Ted Turner Brouhaha
CNN and Newsweek this week are presenting coverage showing the human face of
Israeli victims of Palestinian terror. Perhaps it is a result of criticism of
news coverage that is slanted against Israel in obvious and subtle ways. Perhaps
it portends a change in the slant.
CNN this week will present stories about
various Israeli victims in its television reporting. And on its Web site is a
moving set of materials on a mini-Web site called Victims of Terror:
Click
here: CNN.com Specials
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/terror.victims/index.html
The mini-site includes a listing of the name, age, photograph, and brief
information about each of the Israeli victims over the past 18 months, and how
& where they were murdered. The cumulative effect of looking at each
picture and reading the information is very moving. The site also has articles
and a chronology of the terror attacks.
The Newsweek article is about treatment of
Israeli victims of terror attacks at the trauma unit at Jerusalem’s Ein Karem
Hadassah Hospital, and the unique, terrifying injuries they suffer:
Click
here: Code Blue in Jerusalem
http://www.msnbc.com/news/771106.asp?0bl=-0
To donate to Hadassah Hospital, go here, and designate Hadassah Medical
Organization:
Click
here: Hadassah Giving Donations
https://www.hadassah.org/donations/index.html
Here are the 2 articles in the London
newspaper The Guardian last week reporting on the Ted Turner interview in which
he equated Israeli military action with Palestinian terror attacks:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4435748,00.html
Click
here: Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search especially the
11th paragraph
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4435731,00.html
And here is Ted Turner's apology:
Click
here: ADL Welcomes Apology from Ted Turner - Press Release
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/IslME_62/4115_62.asp
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Get Too Comfortable
The influence on Palestinian children to
kill Israelis comes from numerous elements of their society, including their
schools and parents. Last week Alan Keyes' tv show showed video from
Palestinian schools of schoolchildren pledging their blood and lives to killing
Israelis. Here are pictures from an Arabic-language Web site of a school
ceremony in Gaza. Notice the burning Israeli flag, the "weapons",
and the "blood" on the hands (reminiscent of the murder and
disembowlement of 2 lost Israelis in Ramallah last year):
Click
here: New Page 1
And here is a translation of an interview with the mother of a suicide bomber,
expressing her nurturing of and joy at his accomplishments, published in a
London-based Arabic newspaper earlier this month:
Click
here: MEMRI research cited in the media
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD39102
Unfortunately, it appears that a majority of the Palestinian people support
suicide attacks against Israeli civilians, and define their struggle as one to
"liberate all of historic Palestine", i.e., Israel:
Click
here: israelinsider : diplomacy: Most Palestinians want Israel's destruction,
support suicide bombings
http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article%5El1127&enZone=Diplomacy&enVersion=0&
To sign a petition demanding that the UN address suicide bombing and the
promotion of suicide bombing, go here:
Click
here: Humankind Against Genocide Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/2israel/petition.html
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President Bush's Mideast Plan
Here is the printed text (and a video) of
the entirety of President Bush's June 24 bold speech setting forth conditions
for American support of a Palestinian state. It is important to understand
the entire position President Bush sets forth, including demands on all sides to
the conflict:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html
To express your views on the speech:
president@whitehouse.gov
The
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenia
Washington, DC 20500
FAX: 202-456-2461
TELEPHONE: 202-456-1111
If you want to let foreign governments know important it is to put into effect
the President's plan, get contact information here:
Click
here: All of the Embassies of Washington D.C.
http://www.embassy.org/embassies/
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Here
is a brief visual history of the Mideast conflict, with maps. It is not an
exhaustive study of the problem nor does it address the subtleties of the
dispute, but it sets forth some basic facts crucial to an understanding of the
conflict:
Click
here: conflict
http://www.conceptwizard.com/conflict.html
Another, more complex interactive history lesson is available here -- after
getting on the page, scroll halfway down, and click the link Interactive:
Searching For Peace in the left margin:
Click
here: Arafat brushes off Bush’s peace plan
http://msnbc.com/news/771278.asp
Israeli News
In
the last issue of our newsletter, we showed you where on the Web you can listen
to news in English from Israel. Here is another source:
Click
here: Kol Israel - English
http://bet.iba.org.il/PopUpEnglish.html
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Volunteer for Israel
There are opportunities for Americans to
give hands-on help to Israel:
Click
here: Volunteer for Israel now!
http://www.wzo.org.il/en/volunteer/default.asp
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Israel Action Committee Newsletter,
Editor, Jerry Birenz
updated: 02/18/05